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Michael Zürn, Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy and Contestation

Oxford University Press, 2018, 336 pp, ISBN: 978-0198819981

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  1. Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, (Princeton University Press, 2006).

  2. Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy. Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 2.

  3. Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, “Power and Purpose in Transgovernmental Networks. Insights from the Global Non-Proliferation Regime”, in The New Power Politics: networks and transnational security governance, Deborah Avant and Oliver Westerwinter, eds, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 131–167.

  4. Jeremy Richardson, ed., European Union Power and Policy Making, (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 12–15.

  5. Debra Straussfogel, and Caroline von Schilling, “Systems Theory”, in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, (Elsevier Science, 2009), pp. 151–158.

  6. Jan Zielonka, Europe as Empire. The Nature of the Enlarged European Union, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). The neo-medieval paradigm has also been used in the study of global politics. See Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, (London: Macmillan, 1977) or Neo-Medieval Times - Parag Khanna

  7. For typologies of empires see, e.g., S.N. Eisenstadt, Political Systems of Empires, (New York: Free Press, 1963), pp. 10–12; Alexander J. Motyl, Imperial Ends. The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp. 18–20; or Alejandro Colas, Empire, (Polity: Cambridge, 2007), pp. 3–26.

  8. Niall Ferguson, Colossus. The Price of America’s Empire, (New York: Allen Lane, 2004); Charles S. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006); Amy Chua, Days of Empire. How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why they Fall, (New York: Doubleday, 2007); Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism, (London: Vintage, 1993).

  9. For notable exceptions see, e.g., Michael Cox, “The Empire’s Back in Town: or America’s Imperial Temptation Again,” Millennium, 32 (2003), p. 19. Also: Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, “Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations,” Millennium, 31 (2002), pp. 109–27.

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Zielonka, J. Michael Zürn, Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy and Contestation. Soc 59, 471–474 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00747-3

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